informe

See also: informé

Catalan

Etymology

Deverbal from informar.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

Noun

informe m (plural informes)

1. report
2. news

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.fɔʁm/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

Etymology 1

Verb

informe

1. inflection of informer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Latin īnformis.

Adjective

informe (plural informes)

1. formless, shapeless
2. unfaithful
3. (astronomy) Étoiles informes : An old term for stars that were not members of any constellation

Further reading

• “informe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin īnformis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inˈfor.me/
• Rhymes: -orme
• Hyphenation: in‧fór‧me

Adjective

informe m or f by sense (plural informi)

1. formless, shapeless

Derived terms

• informemente

Related terms

• forma

Further reading

• “informe”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026

Anagrams

• fermino, formine, infermo, morfine

Latin

Adjective

īnfōrme

1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of īnfōrmis

Middle English

Verb

informe

1. alternative form of enformen

Portuguese

Verb

informe

1. inflection of informar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inˈfoɾme/ [ĩɱˈfoɾ.me]
• Rhymes: -oɾme
• Syllabification: in‧for‧me

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én

Proto-Italic *en

Proto-Italic *en-

Latin in-

Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ)der.?

Latin fōrma

Latin fōrmō

Latin īnfōrmārelbor.

Spanish informardeverb.

Spanish informe

Deverbal from informar.

Noun

informe m (plural informes)

1. report

   Synonym: (Latin America) reporte

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ)der.?

Latin fōrma

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Italic *n̥-

Latin in-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂der.?

Proto-Italic *-is

Latin -is

Latin in- -is

Latin īnformislbor.

Spanish informe

Learned borrowing from Latin īnformis.

Adjective

informe m or f (masculine and feminine plural informes)

1. shapeless, formless
   • 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:

     Pegábansele al oído aquellos ritmos y por las mañanas, cuando bajaba al jardín, después de decir misa en la Abadía o en la capilla si estaba habilitada, solía tararear entre dientes algún cantorrio informe.

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2. misshapen

   Synonym: deforme

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

informe

1. inflection of informar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “informe”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025